UT football: Brown says some recruits ‘didn’t fit us’

AUSTIN — Over the past few weeks, recruiting circles have been abuzz about two apparent misfires for Texas. Sealy’s Ricky Seals-Jones, rated by many as the top wide receiver in the state, decommitted from the Longhorns, and another vaunted receiver, Fort Worth Southwest’s Robbie Rhodes, chose Baylor, reportedly over UT.

Although Longhorns coach Mack Brown mentioned neither player by name Wednesday, he did make an unprompted reference to the furor that erupts when the Longhorns miss out on hyped recruits.

“Sometimes people panic when you lose a guy,” Brown said. “We might have been trying to lose the guy. Maybe we didn’t want him, and he didn’t fit us. And in some cases, we’ve moved on long before the public moves on.”